http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/Matching-resonant-antennas-tp7663149p7663337.html
Great answer. Thanks much for the reality check. And this summer I was told of the reverse beacon system, too, and I intend to see how that goes. I am just getting back into HF after many years hiatus due to jobs and moving, and started learning Morse code May 1. I intend to make my first contacts in the next week, stumbling as they may be ;-) Ya gotta get wet to go swimming! I am inclined to use the least power I need, and have been following that principle since the early days. I am making a small AFC feedback circuit for my TS-830 to be able to run its power back from the 100/220W it runs at full speed. (No, I am not loading it into a wheelbarrow and carting it into the hills ;-)
I have a KX2 on order, and have been assembling parts for hiking trips: antenna, battery, key. I spend a lot of time outdoors, and figure I might as well add ham to that and enjoy the best of both worlds. I expect to be on the air on some mountain in NH by mid Aug, if the KX2 gets here by then. I fully understand the delays, so not impatient. ;-) Well, maybe a little...
>Rich -
>
>While I would like to be able to say that I have taken exhaustive field
>strength readings in all directions on all bands at appropriate distances,
>such is not the case ... nor will it ever be. I base my performance
>assessment on reception reports (PSKreporter, etc.) and actual QSOs compared
>to what I would predict based on NEC pattern data along with predicted
>propagation.
>
>The bottom line is that I have WAS on 160, 80, 40, 30 and 20 meters, DXCC
>(actually 145 countries) and a host of other "awards" that just popped up in
>the normal course of having fun and hamming it up.
>And most of that was with 100 watts or less, and all of it in the 14 months
>since I put up this antenna.
>
>For me, that IS the whole picture.
>
>73
>Lyn, W0LEN
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Matching resonant antennas
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>This actually surfaces a question that I am currently wondering about with
>my own system...what is measured performance here? I have a 40m EF wire
>about 20m in the air, and I wonder how effective it is at radiating. I have
>good SWR, and I get good signal reports, but wonder if that is the whole
>picture?
>
>~R~
>72/73 de Rich NE1EE
>On the banks of the Piscataqua
>
>On 2020-07-17 20:18:-0500, Lyn Norstad wrote:
>
>>The measured performance indicates excellent radiation on all bands.
>>
>>73
>>Lyn, W0LEN